"The Insects of Australia" full-colour plates 1 to 8

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This collection is comprised of high-resolution scans from the eight full-colour plates in the CSIRO publication "The Insects of Australia - a textbook for students and research workers, Volumes I and II, 2nd Edition".\r
Plate 1: Odonata (dragonflies)\r
Plate 2: Mantodea (mantids), Blattodea (cockroaches), Dermaptera (earwigs), Orthoptera (grasshoppers, crickets and katydids).\r
Plate 3: Hemiptera (bugs)\r
Plate 4: Coleoptera (beetles)\r
Plate 5: Coleoptera (beetles), Diptera (flies), Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps).\r
Plate 6: Batesian Mimicry.\r
Plate 7: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)\r
Plate 8: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)\r
A ninth plate, depicting termite heads, has been included in this collection but was not published in the final volumes.
Lineage: The colour plates were created by scientific illustrator and artist, Frank Nanninga, specially for "The Insects of Australia" volumes I and II. The two volumes provide a comprehensive account of Australia's distinctive and exciting insect fauna. The volumes include detailed treatments of the morphology and biology of all insect orders and up-to-date summaries for all families known to occur in Australia. Keys using structural features, over 2000 black-and-white illustrations, colour plates and electron micrographs enable the reader to place any Australian insect in its correct family.